Hannah Mcmanus Walsh, 90, Longtime Resident Of Lauderdale

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Hannah McManus Walsh, one of 16 children brought to the United States from Scotland by their father in 1919, died on Wednesday of stomach cancer. She was 90.

Mrs. Walsh`s son, John, is a security guard at the Broward County Courthouse.

Mrs. Walsh and her large family settled in New Jersey after leaving Scotland. In 1956, she moved to Fort Lauderdale. Always fond of children, she worked at a day-care center during the 1960s and early 1970s, John Walsh said.

He remembers his mother, a feisty, no-nonsense woman, charging off to her children`s Catholic elementary school after learning a nun had pulled his brother James` hair for misbehaving in class.

``She went to St. Paul`s and wanted to beat the nun up,`` John Walsh said. ``She protected her sons.``